Left to right: Maitham Al-Khafiji, 23, left, Jamal Al Hmdani, 19, , Emad Al-Kasid, 30, (hands only) and Ahmad Al-Hamedi, 22, not pictured, sing and clap a traditional Iraqi song on the way to a picnic on Mount Kasuonn overlooking Damascus, Syria, at about 2:30am on Thursday, July 17, 2003. Haider Al-Jubury, 30, is in the front seat. Al-kasid and Al-Jubury, members of Iraqi Youth Reunion in Dearborn, MI, have been planning the trip home to Iraq, over the last year. They are visiting their immediate families in Damascus, Syria, as hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Shiite settled in Syria after the Gulf War and their uprising against Saddam Hussein in 1991.